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...medical possibilities inherent in this discovery. If a cancer specialist can use this map to accelerate her search for the genetic anomaly that leads to breast cancer, we might find a cure - or a means of prevention. And if the root of a chronic illness lies buried in our DNA, the genome map could eventually lead us to a usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest descriptions are critical to an eventual understanding of our genetic makeup...
...sleeping at the home of his son, Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., because Jackie had kicked him out of the house. Several news organizations, including TIME, looked into the matter but declined to publish the story because Stanford denied that Jackson was the father. But Stanford also obtained a DNA test to establish his paternity, and Jackson quietly agreed to pay her $35,000 to relocate to Los Angeles and $3,000 in monthly support, according to Jackson's spokesman...
...link between Ermakova and the Russian mob, which may have used his philandering in an extortion attempt. Becker, who was divorced from wife Barbara Feltus earlier in the week, says simply that the mob stuff is "speculation" and "is not true." "There is a baby named Anna, and a DNA test will determine who is the mother and who is the father." And then we can all get back to Anna Kournikova...
Some will surely argue that we need tough laws to prevent some kook from setting up a DNA shop on a deserted island and breeding superbabies--a genetic Temptation Island. Others will say we need an international ban lest we find ourselves taking orders from the next Saddam Hussein's eugenically brewed army...
...intentions for this column were not as self-aggrandizing as my normal ideas, like the one that would print out my entire DNA code. Instead, this exercise was meant to put me back in my rightful place. I figured I'd go to amihotornot.com a website where masochists and narcissists alike post their photos anonymously and let visitors rate them on a scale of 1 to 10. Because high school kids like to go to the site and scan in yearbook pictures from the Most Likely to Keep Using the Thyroid-Problem Excuse category--or snapshots of their shirtless dads...